Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Matsuoka, brilliant, ruth less, resourceful, has been called "the most Westernized of Japanese leaders and the most dangerous to the West." It was he who haughtily led Japan's delegation out of the League of Nations when Geneva tried to curb his country's invasion of Manchuria (TIME, March...
Most of what he saw and reported in the American Medical Association Journal last week was news: The inside of the normal stomach "presents a brilliant picture-glistening, bright, orange red. The apparently normal gastric mucous membrane often contains some hemorrhages and pigment spots. The significance of these is perhaps not yet entirely clear." Stomach ulcers are yellow or greyish white, stomach cancers dark brown or violet...
Today alphabetical rotation has made brilliant, moon-faced Comrade Litvinoff the League Council's President. Last week he and Benito Mussolini fenced with pussywillows...
...brief and brilliant period of the New Deal U. S. monetary policy slipped out of the hands of the President, Congress and Senator Fletcher into the hands of economists. With bankers in disrepute as wise and beneficent directors of U. S. destiny, economists were trotted out to replace them. In regular if rapid rotation economists rode high in the New Deal. What they have accomplished no one will know for years but today one thing is certain: Economists as a class are almost as discredited as bankers in the popular mind...
...admitted their humiliation at the invasion of Belgium, his chapters on the War years are strangely naive and repetitious. Determined to establish Germany's guilt, he seems to lose sight of his king in his search for a code of ethics in modern warfare. But in a brilliant chapter on the King and his reign, Biographer d'Ydewalle characterizes the daily routine of royalty in terms that are enlightening. Plagued by intriguing politicians, the highest compliment Albert could pay his minister was his sardonic "You, at any rate, have always told me the truth." One of his most...